Program

8:45 - 9:00 Opening remarks
9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk: Towards Clean, Structured Data from the Web and Volunteers
Timothy Chklovski
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 LRTwiki: Enriching the Likelihood Ratio Test with Encyclopedic Information for the Extraction of Relevant Terms
Niklas Jakob, Mark-Christoph M¨uller, Iryna Gurevych
11:00 - 11:30 Filtering Information Extraction via User-Contributed Knowledge
Thomas Lin, Oren Etzioni, James Fogarty
11:30 - 12:00 Using an SVM Classifier to Improve the Extraction of Bilingual Terminology from Wikipedia
Maike Erdmann, Kotaro Nakayama, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Invited talk: Modeling Information Seeking Behavior in Social Media
Eugene Agichtein
14:30 - 15:00 Scaling Wikipedia-based Named Entity Disambiguation to Arbitrary Web Text
Anthony Fader, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 Learning to Integrate Relational Databases with Wikipedia
Doug Downey, Arun Ahuja, Mike Anderson
16:00 - 16:20 Leveraging Social Networking Sites to Acquire Rich Task Structure
Yolanda Gil, Paul Groth, Varun Ratnakar
16:20 - 16:40 Compact Hierarchical Explicit Semantic Representation
Sonya Liberman, Shaul Markovitch
16:40 - 17:00 WikiSLE: Mapping Wikipedia Infobox information onto the article text
Sedat Gokalp, Syed Toufeeq Ahmed, Suvitha Vijayarajan, Hasan Davulcu
17:00 - 17:30 Free discussion and closing remarks